NYS GIS Association News
eSpatially – Geospatial Business Spotlight: VHB
The latest post from NYS GIS Association member Sam Wear, “Geospatial Business Spotlight: VHB”, posted February 10, 2021, is available on his website eSpatially New York. "VHB’s innovative Healthy Mobility Model utilizes GIS mapping powered by ESRI to establish a...
Southern Tier GIS Users Group News
Greetings Southern Tier GIS Users! We’re going to try to schedule a Zoom meeting of the Southern Tier GIS Users Group for some time the first week in February. Following is a link to a Doodle Poll where you can indicate which times could work for you. Check all the...
eSpatially – Cruising Empire State Data Portals for Geospatial Content
The latest post from NYS GIS Association member Sam Wear, “Cruising Empire State Data Portals for Geospatial Content”, posted January 14, 2021, is available on his website eSpatially New York. "Such portals purpose and intent is to promote government transparency,...
Catherine DuBreck Appointed to Board of Directors
Catherine DuBreck of EagleView Technologies has been appointed to the Board of Directors. She will complete President-Elect Karyn Tareen's term on the Board. Catherine is currently a member of the Communications Committee.
2020 Application/Dashboard Winner: Suffolk County GIS
Suffolk County GIS | COVID-19 Application/Dashboard Award Suffolk County GIS developed and launched both an internal and external COVID dashboard. With over 1.5 million hits to date, this dashboard is used by hundreds of municipal governments, non-profit...
2020 GIS Champion: Frank Winters
Frank Winters | 2020 Fight Against COVID-19 GIS Champion Award Frank Winters has been a strong advocate for the use of GIS to support COVID operations. He has succeeded in having the NYS Geocoder used for complaints about large, unsafe gatherings of individuals and...
eSpatially – Geospatial Student Spotlight: Christopher Plummer
The latest post from NYS GIS Association member Sam Wear, “Geospatial Student Spotlight: Christopher Plummer”, posted December 9, 2020, is available on his website eSpatially New York. "Plummer’s overall research goal was to use thermal imaging drones to perform...
NYS GIS Association Election Results !!!
NYS GIS Association Election Results Congratulations to President-elect Karyn Senneff Tareen (Geocove, Inc.) and new Directors to the Board, Stephanie Rockwell (NYS Canal Corporation) and Jiin Wen (NYC Economic Development Corporation). Here's to a good year!
2020 Application/Dashboard Winner: Rockland County Planning Department
Rockland County Planning Department | COVID-19 Application/Dashboard Award Rockland County developed and launched a COVID-19 HUB along with various related dashboards: Rockland County COVID-19 Dashboard, Rockland Unpause Dashboard, Rockland’s Early Warning Dashboard....
2020 GIS Champion: Doug Schuetz
Doug Schuetz | 2020 Fight Against COVID-19 GIS Champion Award Doug Schuetz worked with the Health Department and his GIS team to not only build useful public dashboards to track COVID, but also set up a geocoding application. Based on county and state SAM data, this...
Open Source GIS
- Notebooks in QGIS 01/10/2026
- QGIS to (Geo)Pandas – part 3 12/03/2025
- QGIS to (Geo)Pandas follow-up 10/31/2025